can_knight_move: Check if a knight has any legal moves

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Check if a knight has any legal moves

Description

This function checks if a knight at a given position on a chess board has any legal moves.

Usage

can_knight_move(board, coordinates, color = board$to_move)

knight_can_move(board, coordinates, color = board$to_move)

Arguments

board	A list containing the current state of the chess board.
coordinates	A vector of length 2 representing the coordinates of the knight on the board. The first element is the row number and the second element is the column number.
color	An optional character vector giving the color of the knight. Defaults to the color of the player whose turn it is to move.

Details

See fen_to_board() for details of the chess board format. This function is used by other functions when testing for stalemate. can_knight_move() is an alias for knight_can_move().

Value

A logical value indicating whether the knight has any legal moves (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

Examples

board <- fen_to_board() # Starting position
coordinates <- c(1, 2)  # Coordinates of the white knight in the starting position
can_knight_move(board, coordinates)

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